Een interview met oud-prostituee Metje Blaak
Geplaatst op: 1 januari 2026
De seksindustrie in Nederland
Leer meer over het leven van een prostituee door dit interview te lezen. 13 vragen aan een ex-sekswerker in Nederland.
1 | Sinds wanneer willen meer prostituees zelfstandig werken?
Women always wanted to work autonomously, but there is an ongoing witch hunt for prostitutes. Whether you had to be aware of pimps, or the local or tax authorities were close on your heels. Something that is bothering the girls terribly at the moment is “handhaving”. They come into the rooms of the prostitutes. When the Sekswerkers in hun lingerie staan, voelen ze zich echt kwetsbaar.
So yes, many women want to remain completely in control and rent their own flat or work with a couple of women together, form a kind of partnership together without any one interfering. Of course, they pay their taxes, but it is wrong that everyone can walk in. The tax authorities can walk in and say: “Can I see what’s inside your wallet?”. That’s too absurd for words.
2 | Has the control on sex workers increased since the 1980’s?
Prostitution wasn’t an official job back then, it was tolerated though. Sex workers did not have as much trouble as they have now. They didn’t pay taxes, because it was not an official job. Sometimes, as I did when I worked as a prostitute back then, I whitewashed my money by starting different little companies. Being a prostitute was a “side-job”. There was always a solution for the money that came in.
3 | Zijn de problemen in de Nederlandse prostitutiesector?
Het stigma is het ergste. Vrouwen die willen stoppen met prostitutie, die iets anders willen doen, vinden dat moeilijk.
I have seen that children had to leave the daycare-center because their mother was a prostitute. I have mediated to let these children back in, but the relationship was damaged too much and the women would seek out another daycare-center. And then I haven’t even talked about the bullying on the internet, where men can offend these women deeply, because it’s all anonymous.
4 | Has the stigma of prostitution reduced since the 80’s?
No, I think it is becoming worse. In the past, being a prostitute wasn’t very accepted either, but now with the internet anyone can say anything. Now, you get to know what people really think and do. Someone in his attic can just bully as much as he or she likes.
5 | Hoewel het stigma op prostituees groter wordt, wordt de klant beter geaccepteerd?
Ja, klanten zijn opener over Prostitutie than before.
Ik weet dat mannen er onderling over kunnen praten, maar alleen als er een bepaalde vorm van vertrouwen is. Prostituant zijn is nog steeds taboe.
6 | Welke rechten ontbreken sinds de legalisering van prostitutie?
De overheid wil registratie invoeren, om vrouwen te registreren als prostituee. Ik vind dat vrouwen het recht moeten hebben om registratie te weigeren, vanwege het maatschappelijke stigma. A couple of months ago, there was a disturbance here in Amsterdam about the mayor Van der Laan, who stated that every prostitute should register herself to the Chamber of Commerce as a prostitute. Otherwise, the prostitutes weren’t allow to work anymore. I was told that this was something that the Chamber of Commerce wanted. So I decided to call the Chamber of Commerce. They told me that they did not know anything about that.
Amsterdams Mayor Van der Laan wanted to have this, because he wanted it to be mapped. Some prostitutes already registered, because they were afraid to lose their jobs. Unfortunately, have the prostitutes been chased by their customers. Everyone could just type “prostitute” in the register of the Chamber of Commerce and all names and addresses would appear.
I think that sex workers should have the right to say: “No, I don’t want that”… A regular customer does not say where he has been all the time. That part of prostitution should remain a bit mystical. For men as well as for women.
7 | Wat zijn de gevolgen van de registratie van prostituees?
When the government is coming through with this obligation to register, all “free” sex workers will go underground. And the forced women will be registered.
I know many students who work in prostitution, but they do not want to be registered. What if they want to become a lawyer? They don’t know where they will be registered. And on the internet you can find pretty much everything. So that registration will haunt them down for the rest of their life. It just simply doest not work.
8 | Zijn de werkomstandigheden voor de prostituees slechter geworden?
Yes, it went downhill. In the beginning we all thought: “Hurray, prostitution is an official occupation and that should mean that we have rights. But we didn’t get more rights, we only received duties. Politicians might have had good intentions, but after a while other interests started to emerge.
9 | Welke verplichtingen hebben sekswerkers?
Prostitutes who work autonomously, those who have been working in this business for years and know how much money they’ll be having (because of their regular customers) find it hard to get mortgage. The women are being refused by banks.
In de gezondheidszorg zijn er soortgelijke problemen. Als een prostituee zich wil verzekeren, is de verzekeringspremie daarvoor ongelooflijk hoog. De verzekeraars denken dat deze prostituees alle ziektes van de wereld hebben.
10 | Denk je dat Nederlandse beleidsmakers een ander prostitutiebeleid moeten aannemen?
De overheid zou eigenlijk voorgelicht moeten worden over prostitutie.
Ze zouden een cursus moeten volgen over hoe prostitutie precies werkt. Bovendien zouden ze meer in contact moeten staan met ex-prostituees, bordeeleigenaren en misschien ook pooiers.
11 | Wat is de rol van drugs in de seksindustrie?
Er zijn drie groepen sekswerkers. De eerste bestaat uit prostituees die psychische problemen hebben en verslaafd zijn, de tweede groep zijn meisjes die tot dit werk worden gedwongen en de derde groep bestaat uit prostituees die ervoor hebben gekozen om als zelfstandige prostituee te werken. Een prostituee die voor zichzelf werkt, ziet het als een gewone baan, onderhoudt haar gezin en bouwt er een leven mee op.
12 | Hoe groot is de groep vrouwen die alleen werkt vanwege hun drugsverslaving?
I don’t know how.
13 | Can you also find addicted prostitutes behind the windows in Amsterdam’s Red Light District?
Ik denk niet dat er verslaafde prostituees achter de ramen zitten, want de meeste raameigenaren zouden dat niet toestaan.
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